Charles B. (Charles Billings) Stilson

Born in Albion, New York, in 1880, Charles Billings Stilson built his career in newspapers before becoming known to pulp readers. Reference sources describe him as an American journalist and editor who was active in the early decades of the twentieth century, especially in fiction published by Frank A. Munsey magazines.

Stilson is best remembered for a run of adventurous fantasy and science-fiction tales from the 1910s and early 1920s. His work included the Polaris stories, which later readers have linked with the lost-world tradition and the kind of fast-moving imaginative fiction popular in magazines like All-Story Weekly.

He died in 1932 at age 52. Though he is not as widely known now as some of his contemporaries, bibliographic and genre reference sources still note him as a distinctive early pulp writer whose stories captured the magazine-fiction spirit of his time.